EDA and IP Standards Highlight Accellera Day, March 3 at 2014 Design and Verification Conference and Exhibition
In-depth tutorials on Accellera standards provide users with practical information to immediately implement in their design projects
Napa, California, USA - February 13, 2014 - Accellera Systems Initiative (Accellera), the not-for profit organization dedicated to create, support, promote, and advance system-level design, modeling, and verification standards for use by the worldwide electronics industry, will host its annual Accellera Day on Monday, March 3. The day-long event kicks off the 2014 DVCon (Design and Verification Conference and Exhibition) and features in-depth tutorials from experts and users on the latest in electronic design and intellectual property standards.
What/When/Where
Accellera Day is Monday, March 3, 8:30am-4:30pm, and kicks off DVCon 2014, to be held through March 6 at the DoubleTree Hotel in San Jose, Calif. A booth crawl in the Expo will be held from 5:00pm-7:00pm. Find out more.
Agenda
Accellera Day presents in-depth tutorials about the latest in EDA and IP standards. A luncheon features an update on Accellera activities, presentation of the annual Technical Excellence Award for outstanding achievement and contribution to Accellera standards, and industry panel on mixed signal verification.
9:00am to 12:00pm
-- Tutorial 1: UVM - What's Now and What's Next
-- Tutorial 2: Using UPF for Low Power Design and Verification
12:15pm to 1:45pm
-- Accellera Luncheon:
The Future of Mixed Signal Verification: From Manual Simulations to Full Regression?
2:00pm to 5:00pm
-- Tutorial 3: Case Studies in SystemC
-- Tutorial 4: Experience the Next ~Wave~ of Analog and Digital Signal Processing Using SystemC AMS 2.0 (ends 5:30pm)
-- Tutorial 5: OCP: The Journey Continues
5:00pm to 7:00pm
-- DVCon Expo - BOOTH CRAWL
Registration
Accellera Day is offered as part of DVCon 2014. Find out more and register.
Sponsors
Accellera Systems Initiative Day is sponsored by ARM, Cadence, Mentor Graphics, and Synopsys.
Multi-language Birds-of-Feather Meeting
Accellera will sponsor a Multi-language Birds-of-Feather meeting on Tuesday, March 4 from 6:00pm to 8:00pm at the DoubleTree Hotel. The Multi-language Working Group (MLWG) is working on a standard to define multi-language verification interoperability including languages or methodologies based on or using SystemVerilog, UVM, and/or SystemC. Engineers, authors, users and EDA tool vendors are invited to participate in the open session. Registration is not required. Find out more.
About DVCon 2014
The 2014 DVCon (Design and Verification Conference and Exhibition) will be held March 3-6 in San Jose, Calif. Sponsored by Accellera, DVCon is the industry's premiere conference for functional design and verification. This year's conference is expected to be the best attended yet, with 12 technical sessions, a conference record of 12 tutorials, a poster session with a record number of 30 posters being presented, and record number of exhibitors. Find out more at www.dvcon.org.
About Accellera Systems Initiative
Accellera Systems Initiative (Accellera) provides design and verification standards for quick availability and use in the electronics industry. The organization and its members cooperatively deliver much-needed EDA and IP standards that lower the cost to design commercial IC and EDA products. As a result of Accellera's partnership with the IEEE, Accellera standards are transferred to the IEEE standards body for formalization and ongoing change control. For more information about Accellera, visit www.accellera.org.